Böcker av Héctor Fernández l'Hoeste

How online humor influences politics andculture in Latin America Thisvolume is the first to provide a comprehensive Latin American perspective onthe role of humor in the Spanish- and Portuguese-language internet, highlightinghow the production and circulation of online humor influence the region'srelation to democracy and civil society and the production of meaning ineveryday life. Severalcase studies consider memes, including discussions of political cartoons inMexico and imagery that portrays the mismanagement of natural disasters inPuerto Rico. Essays on Brazil examine how memes are shared on WhatsApp by JairBolsonaro supporters and how the Instagram account Barbie Fascionista offers memesas political commentary. Other case studies consider video content, including thesketches of Argentinian comedian Guillermo Aquino, the short-form material of Chileanvlogger Germán Garmendia, and a satirical YouTube column created by journalistsin Colombia. Contributors also offer new methodologies for studying thelaughable on social media, including a model for analyzing fake Twitter accounts. Internet, Humor, and Nation in Latin America demonstrates that internet humor can generate novelmeans of public interaction with the political and cultural spheres and creategreater expectations of governmental accountability and democraticparticipation. This volume shows the importance of paying serious attention tohumorous digital content as part of contemporary culture.Contributors: Eva Paulina Bueno Juan Poblete AlbertoCenteno-Pulido Damián Fraticelli Juan Carlos Rodríguez Viktor Chagas Paul Alonso Ulisses Sawczuk da Silva Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste AlejandraNallely Collado Campos R. Sánchez-Rivera Mélodine Sommier Fábio Marquesde Souza Avolume in the series Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/oAmerica, edited by Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste and Juan Carlos Rodríguez Publicationof this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the AmericanRescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.